Source: Team_Talk
Kean admits to drink-driving
lackburn manager Steve Kean pleaded guilty to drink-driving on Monday - but claimed his drink was spiked.[LNB] The 43-year-old was charged with being almost twice the legal limit when he failed a breath test just hours after his side played Manchester United in the Premier League last May.[LNB]Kean, of Weybridge, Surrey, changed his plea to guilty of driving with excess alcohol shortly before his trial was due to begin at Macclesfield Magistrates' Court in Cheshire.[LNB]His solicitor immediately made a "special reasons" application to District Judge Nicholas Sanders which seeks to exempt Kean from a driving ban because he claims he unknowingly broke the law.[LNB]Kean was breathalysed after his Mercedes was pulled over by police on the south-bound carriageway of the M6 near Knutsford, Cheshire, on May 14.[LNB]The prosecution say he sped past a police patrol car at 90mph.[LNB]The officers, who were driving at 50mph, pulled him over and gave him a breath test which recorded 65 micrograms of alcohol per 100 millilitres of breath.[LNB]The legal limit is 35 micrograms per 100 millilitres of breath.[LNB]The former Fulham, Coventry and Real Sociedad coach was appointed caretaker manager at Blackburn last December following the sacking of Sam Allardyce before being given the role permanently.[LNB]The team embarked on this season's Premier League campaign with a 2-1 home defeat by Wolves on Saturday.
